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Laptop for Auditioning Equipment at Dealer?

I'll be getting a MacBook Pro laptop this summer and would like to take it to audition DACs at stereo dealers. I assume you would need some cable that would let you go out of the laptop in Firewire or USB and into the DAC with Coaxial or Fiberopic. Does anyone know how this might be done? I guess I could take my Airport Express and go out of it with Toslink, but I was hoping to avoid going wireless and using the AE if possible.
bruce_1
ethos
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If the laptop has a digital out (via a mini optical), then you can buy an optical cable with a mini plug on one end and a standard toslink on the other. The same cord will work from your AE to a DAC. van den hul makes one that's gotten good reviews here.

good luck.
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audioengr
3,282 posts
 
I would recommend a battery-powered USB to S/PDIF coax converter.
herman
2,274 posts
 
Come on Steve, I don't disagree with your recommendation but you could at least disclose that you sell usb - s/pdif converters.
audioengr
3,282 posts
 
That could be construed as advertising. If I dont mention my products or my company name, then he is free to search the web for the many versions of converters for himself.
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